However, in the base of the article what we get goes deeper than the "shrine" (it is not an official shrine and the parish was ordered - again - in June to remove any mention of "shrine" from it's parish website, but this has still not been done). This part of the headline is sure to be exploited by Medjugorje promoters.

I took my heading from the Cardinal's own words as published in English. In part, the Reuters blogpost reads:

After observing events sceptically for many years, the Vatican may soon issue firmer guidance for Catholics on the claim that the mother of Jesus has been visiting the Balkans, Cardinal Vinko Puljic, head of the bishops’ conference in Bosnia, told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday. That guidance, if it clearly expresses the scepticism the official Church has long shown towards the Medjugorje phenomenon, could deal a serious blow to a site some Catholics see as a “new Lourdes.”

“We are now awaiting a new directive on this issue,” said Puljic, the Sarajevo archbishop who survived the city’s long wartime siege in the 1990s. “I don’t think we must wait for a long time, I think it will be this year, but that is not clear… I am going to Rome in November and we must discuss this.”

Official Church scepticsm about Medjugorje has become more public in recent months. In June, Bishop Ratko Peric of Mostar, the nearest city in Bosnia, warned Catholics against uncritical belief in Medjugorje and issued a series of restrictions on the parish. “Brothers and sisters, let us not act as if these ‘apparitions’ were recognised and worthy of faith,” he said in a sermon.

I don't think we can look at any one part of this in isolation. Rather, it needs to be viewed in the context of recent events, including a series of notifications and statements coming out of the Diocese of Mostar Duvno (see list below).

Like any thing being investigated, discernment of apparitions is most interested with what happened in the early days, weeks and years. Details can take many years to come out, and even more to piece together. In 2008, news surfaced that fra Tomslav Vlasic was disciplined by the Holy See for “for the diffusion of dubious doctrine, manipulation of consciences, suspicious mysticism, disobedience towards legitimately issued orders and charges contra sextum [against the sixth commandment].” In part 1 of his recently released statement, Bishop Peric chides the media for attempting to distance Tomislav Vlasic from Medjugorje.

Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron

St. John of the Cross

Dark Night of the Soul (2.2:3)...

"...the devil causes many to believe in vain visionsand false prophecies; and strives to make them presumethat God and the saints are speaking with them; and they often trust their own fancy. And the devil is also accustomed, in this state, to fill them with presumption and pride, so that they become attracted by vanity and arrogance, and allow themselves to be seen engaging in outward acts which appear holy, such as raptures and other manifestations. Thus they become bold with God, and lose holy fear, which is the key and the custodian of all the virtues; and in some of these souls so many are the falsehoods and deceits which tend to multiply, and so inveterate do they grow, that it is very doubtful if such souls will return to the pure road of virtue and true spirituality."